They’re in good company: you’ll find similar bug reports for many other Android applications. The OwnCloud Android client had a similar problem, which they resolved. Someone helpfully wrote up a generic solution, so it’s a problem that can be fixed.

Since there doesn’t seem to be any quality open source podcasting applications for Android, we can’t submit a pull request to anyone. Instead, I’d encourage everyone to report this as a bug to their respective podcasting application provider.